Not to be confused with Erica Green.
Elizabeth Ann “Lisa” Roberts (November 3, 1959 - August 1977), previously known as “Precious Doe” while unidentified, was a teenage girl found murdered in Everett, Washington. Her murder was solved, but she remained unidentified until June 2020.
Disappearance[]
Lisa was reported as a runaway by her father to the Roseburg Police Department on July 25, 1977. A few weeks after she ran away, she called home from Everett, Washington and asked her parents for money. They asked her to come home at the time, and she said she would think about it. Eventually, they sent the money to a bank in Everett, but the money was never picked up. It is believed Lisa was murdered on August 9, 1977, and her body was discovered five days later.
Case[]
Lisa was picked up after hitchhiking by a man named David Roth, who was later convicted of her murder. The pair spent the day together, but she was murdered after denying him sex. Roth dumped her body in a blackberry patch, where she was found by blackberry pickers five days later on August 14, 1977. Roth was arrested and confessed to her murder but did not know her name.
The DNA Doe Project tested Lisa's remains, but her DNA was too degraded to work with due to the boiling of her bones in the past. Margaret Press of the DNA Doe Project stated that they were no longer involved in this investigation but noted that another agency might be able to extract sufficient DNA from Jane Doe's hair.
She was identified in June 2020 as Elizabeth 'Lisa' Roberts from Roseburg, Oregon. Her case was one of the first ones solved by extracting DNA from rootless hair.
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- The case was detailed on Bloodline Detectives in 2022.